Today on the Joyce Kaufman Show, your trusty Juice blogger was treated like a tackling dummy. I tuned in just in time to hear myself called a "lunatic" and be accused of lying.

As best I can figure, I'm a lunatic for this post about congressional candidate Allen West. He resigned from the Army after he was brought up on charges of abusing a detainee, and I simply questioned whether he's really a "war hero," as he's often described on the campaign trail.

And I'm a liar because -- according to what West told Kaufman -- I never contacted the campaign to get his side of the story.

Now, I hate to spoil some good-natured shock-jocking with actual facts, but for the record, here's what happened:

February 23: I emailed the West campaign to ask for an interview.February 25: I received a response from Valentina Weis, communications director for the Allen West campaign. We set an interview for the following week, March 3.March 2: I emailed Weis to confirm that the interview will happen as scheduled. She wrote:

Unfortunately we are going to have to re-schedule our interview for tomorrow at 12:30pm

What days are you available next week?

Let me know... thanks!

At this point, we got in touch by phone. I told Weis that I wanted to talk to West on Monday, the 8th. She said she'd check his schedule and get back to me. When I didn't hear from her by March 5, a Friday, I called and left a message. She didn't return the call. Neither Weis nor West nor anyone from the campaign got in touch with me Monday either. And so on Tuesday, when I posted the article about West's military record, it contained this 100-percent accurate disclosure:

West canceled a scheduled interview with Juice last week, and we haven't heard back from his campaign this week.